This is my first posting to the Sound Clips section, and I thought I would start off with something completely different.
Here's a song called, Jaya Radha Madhava, from a CD I just finished producing for a good friend. His band... The Temple Bhajan Band, plays regularly around the Los Angeles area, at yoga studios, churches and a wide variety of events and festivals. The band plays bhajans (devotional/spiritual songs) and kirtans (chanting) from India, using traditional instruments like harmonium (hand pumped reed keyboard), mridunga (two headed clay drum), kartals (hand cymbals), tanpura (drone), flute, violin, etc.
On this tune, I play a solo guitar throughout the song, tracing the melodies and adding embellishments and decorations. I like to think of it as "celestial blues" guitar. The song is sung in Sanskrit and transitions into a kirtan (chanting).
I produced the CD, including recording, editing, mixing and mastering, as well as arranging the backup vocals (and singing on them too), playing the tanpura and kartals.
FYI... I used a V-Stack Tweedy, plugged directly into an Apogee Trak2, into an RME Multiface, into Logic Pro 7 on a Mac G4. The guitar has a bit of EQ (Pultec) and compression (LA2A), as well as a plate reverb and stereo delay. I used my Les Paul (Empire - made by Lee Garver) with Voodoo 59s, and kept the volume and tone all the way up. All of the tonal dynamics are due to picking variations.
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/1/ronmarinellimusic.htm
Here's a song called, Jaya Radha Madhava, from a CD I just finished producing for a good friend. His band... The Temple Bhajan Band, plays regularly around the Los Angeles area, at yoga studios, churches and a wide variety of events and festivals. The band plays bhajans (devotional/spiritual songs) and kirtans (chanting) from India, using traditional instruments like harmonium (hand pumped reed keyboard), mridunga (two headed clay drum), kartals (hand cymbals), tanpura (drone), flute, violin, etc.
On this tune, I play a solo guitar throughout the song, tracing the melodies and adding embellishments and decorations. I like to think of it as "celestial blues" guitar. The song is sung in Sanskrit and transitions into a kirtan (chanting).
I produced the CD, including recording, editing, mixing and mastering, as well as arranging the backup vocals (and singing on them too), playing the tanpura and kartals.
FYI... I used a V-Stack Tweedy, plugged directly into an Apogee Trak2, into an RME Multiface, into Logic Pro 7 on a Mac G4. The guitar has a bit of EQ (Pultec) and compression (LA2A), as well as a plate reverb and stereo delay. I used my Les Paul (Empire - made by Lee Garver) with Voodoo 59s, and kept the volume and tone all the way up. All of the tonal dynamics are due to picking variations.
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/1/ronmarinellimusic.htm
